Boredoms
 

Which album should I buy first?

Chocolate Synthesizer is you want crazy, goofy, fun
Vision Creation Newsun if you want more serious stuff with more depth
Somebody else can probably help you out a little better

definately get Chocolate Synthesizer first. and if you like that, check out Pop Tatari.

then i'd go with Super AE or Vision Creation Newsun.

Agreed on the Super AE and Vision Creation reccommendations, Chocolate Synthesizer for their noisier thrashier period. Some of their Super Roots are really awesome too.

everything at once and i mean everything.

then get ooioo's feather float, hanatarash's 4, omoide hatoba anything you can get, grind orchestra's live at club fandango and rovo's imago.

pop super choco vision bomb

what everyneurotic said.

also get some psycho-baba while you're at it. and i'd get ooioo green and gold. but definitely any/all omoide hatoba!!!!

the boredoms albums i like in order are... 1. vision, 2. super ae, 3. super roots 9, 4. chocolate synth, 5. pop tatari, 6. soul discharge, 7. onanie bomb and then.. yeah.. it'sa ll over the place after that...

i had a poorly written awful boredoms review site a few years ago.. http://www.geocities.com/boreviewx .. it might help you out.

love bore.

Never, EVER pass up a chance to see them live.

I saw them last year and thoroughly enjoyed it... it was three drummers and Eye in the middle... awesome.

Let us know what you get!

the first boredoms album I ever bought was super roots back in middle school...hanatarash in college! ooioo in high school

iheardsomewherethat boredoms be in nyc on 07/07/07 with like 77 drummers or some shit like that playing at central park and shit

Wow.. that's amazing

Yea, I read about that in Wire, sounds interesting.

Seadrum/House of Sun is pretty cool too. Sounds much like VCN.

wow2 is also amazing.

really underrated.

i'm actually wearing a boredoms shirt right now, haha.. boredoms have been my life since i picked up pop tatari in middle school.. 8th grade, just discovering the locust, big black, melt banana, atari teenage riot, and then... naked city - torture garden. get on a message board, "if you like this, check out pop tatari." so, i checked it out.. wow. it shaped my perception of music.

and what's really weird about MY music is how many people compare it to the boredoms. which is odd, because i never set out to be like the boredoms.. but then i kind of think about the boredoms now... and i realize that the true embodyment and spirit of the boredoms is freedom. freedom and release. they never strayed from anything in the early years: punk to funk to disco to rap to rock to tribal beats to whatever.. and after super ae, they traveled to heaven or something. just.. amazing. i dunno. transcends words.

"super going" has to be my all time favorite song. from the rain soaked guitar building and building and building to that fucking part where the cd skips and the entire song changes.. god. i've heard that song 500 times and it still gives me chills.

boredoms for life.

Boredoms' '77BOADRUM' plans and drummers




With less than two weeks to go before Japan’s legendary Boredoms bring their much-anticipated 77BOADRUM sound installation to life in New York City, details about the one-time-only performance have been revealed to the Daily Swarm.
The event will take place on July 7, 2007 (07/07/07) in Brooklyn, NY at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, which sits in the picturesque sliver of space between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. The gates will open at 4:00 PM, and the show features performances by First Nation and Soft Circle and DJ sets from Gang Gang Dance before the 77-minute 77BOADRUM performance takes place just before sunset. Admission is free, but an RSVP is required. Full details, directions, and RSVP information will be available at www.viceland.com/77boadrum soon.
The performance’s 77 full 5-piece, 3 cymbal drum kits will be arranged in a circular pattern, spiraling out from the center like a coiled snake, where the Boredoms’ own drum kits and Eye’s electronic instruments will sit atop a raised platform. Joining the Boredoms will be 74 additional drummers, 10 of whom will serve as drum leaders and cue the rest.
The volunteer army of drummers represent many of the best players in New York City’s avant/experimental underground and were selected by the event’s music director Hisham Bharoocha. They come from a diverse group of bands and musicians who have drawn influence and inspiration from the Boredoms throughout the group’s 20-year career, including Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four, Tim Dewit and Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance, Andrew W.K., David Grubbs, Hart Mingus of Negative Approach, Matthias Schulz of Holy Fuck, and members of Aa, Crash Worship, God Is My Co-Pilot, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Oneida, Excepter, Antietam, Dymaxion, Panthers, and many others. The full line-up of drummers will be finalized this week.

Wow.

that's fucking amazing.

yeah, rub it in my face more.

somebody has better youtube this. might be the coolest show ever to see.
unfortunatly i live 7 thousand miles away, and am seeing the stooges the same night.

1. soul discharge '99
2. super aR
3. chocolate synthesizer

also get 'cassettetape superstar' by UFO OR DIE (eYe & yoshimi), the best side project ever!

how could i forget this one! definitely.

Listen to Adam. He knows.

VCN is my favorite.

I'll be at the show and deffinitely be taking many many many pictures, as well as my friend who is a photography student and quite talented. And of course there'll be some youtube worthy footage, most likely professional footage for this obvious one time only performance.

Thanks for your tips everyone. Had a listen on iTunes and couldn't decide what a liked best, so I'm downloading Pop Tatari and Chocolate Synthesizer, should keep me going for a while.

Looks like I'm going to see them tonight, along with Kemialliset Ystävät.

Couldn't have expected this few years ago.

exactly

although I think its just not as well known

I want you.